22.11.12

UK CHAMPIONSHIP STORIES: INTRODUCTION

As
the qualifiers continue, the UK Championship hoves into view and I shall build
up to it with a series of three articles.

These are stories about three players who have contributed considerably to the rich history of
the tournament: Alex Higgins, Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan.The stories won't be new to everyone but for younger readers or those who have recently taken to snooker it will hopefully be informative. I will be drawing on personal reminiscence, the testimony of others and old fashioned research.

It
isn’t a comprehensive history of the event, although I wrote an overview of the
UK Championship last year which can of course still be read at the following links:1970s1980s1990s2000s